BURY Metropolitan Borough officials are bemoaning not getting a share of Lottery money, specifically the £300,000 bid for by the ten Greater Manchester authorities.
Assuming the figures are correct, Bury's share of that £300,000 would have been £30,000.
At present, Bury's councillors are intent on selling part of the borough to a housing association and, to give that association a clearance of certain streets, are uprooting many residents and reportedly paying them £1,500 each from public funds for removal and refurnishing expenses.
If the councillors left well enough alone, and the residents in homes they have spent years in, how much more than £30,000 would be saved to pay for Millennium jollifications?
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